Mineral nitrogen sources differently affect root glutamine synthetase isoforms and amino acid balance among organs in maize

BMC Plant Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Prinsi, Bhakti ^a   Espen, Luca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Amino acids; Ammonium; Glutamine synthetase; Maize; Nitrate; Roots

Indexed keywords

ZEA MAYS;

AMINO ACID; AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; ISOPROTEIN; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PLANT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECTS; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MAIZE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PLANT ROOT; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS; AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GLUTAMATE-AMMONIA LIGASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRATES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT ROOTS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84926609836     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12870-015-0482-9     Document Type: Article

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